Embed videos & playlists

You can add a YouTube video or playlist to a website or blog by embedding it.

Embed a video or playlist

  1. On a calculator, go to the YouTube video or playlist you want to embed.
  2. Click SHARE Share.
  3. From the listing of Share options, click Embed.
  4. From the box that appears, copy the HTML lawmaking.
  5. Paste the code into your website HTML.
  6. For network administrators: You will need to add youtube.com to the firewall allowlist.
  7. Important: If your website or app is child directed and you embed YouTube content, you lot must self designate your site or app using these tools. This self designation will ensure Google does non serve personalized ads on these sites or apps and some features will be disabled in the embedded player.

Note:Historic period-restricted videos can't be watched on nigh third party websites. These videos will redirect viewers back to YouTube when played.

Manage video embedding options

Plow on privacy-enhanced mode

The Privacy Enhanced Mode of the YouTube embedded actor prevents the use of views of embedded YouTube content from influencing the viewer'south browsing experience on YouTube. This means that the view of a video shown in the Privacy Enhanced Mode of the embedded player will non be used to personalize the YouTube browsing experience, either within your Privacy Enhanced Mode embedded player or in the viewer's subsequent YouTube viewing experience.

If ads are served on a video shown in the Privacy Enhanced Fashion of the embedded actor, those ads will as well be non-personalized. In addition, the view of a video shown in the Privacy Enhanced Mode of the embedded histrion will not be used to personalize advertising shown to the viewer outside of your site or app.

Every bit a reminder, the YouTube API Terms of Service and Developer Policies apply to the access and use of the YouTube embedded player.

To use Privacy Enhanced Way:

  1. Modify the domain for the embed URL in your HTML from https://www.youtube.com to https://www.youtube-nocookie.com.
  2. For network administrators: Y'all volition need to add together youtube-nocookie.com to the firewall allowlist.
  3. For use in applications, use a WebView instance of the embedded histrion. Privacy Enhanced Style is available only for embedded players on websites.
  4. Important: If your website or app is child directed, yous must self designate your site or app using these tools, as required past the YouTube API Terms of Service and Programmer Policies, even if you embed YouTube videos with the Privacy Enhanced Way player.

Example:

Before

<iframe width="1440" meridian="762"

src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7cjVj1ZyzyE"

frameborder="0" let="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

After

<iframe width="1440" height="762" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7cjVj1ZyzyE"

frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Note: If the viewer clicks or taps out of the embed and is redirected to another website or app, that website or app may rails the viewer'due south behavior as per that website's or app's policies and terms.

Make an embedded video play automatically

To make an embedded video autoplay, add "&autoplay=1" to the video'south embed code correct after the video ID (the series of letters that follows "embed/").

Embedded videos that are autoplayed don't increment video views.

Example: 

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D6Ac5JpCHmI?&autoplay=1"frameborder="0"  allowfullscreen></iframe>

First an embedded video at a sure time

To have a video kickoff playing from a specific point, add together "?beginning=" to a video's embed code, followed past the fourth dimension in seconds at which you'd similar the video to begin playing.

For instance, if you want a video to start at 1 minute and 30 seconds into the video, your embed code would look something like this:

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" top="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UkWd0azv3fQ?star                                          t=90                    " width="420"></iframe>

Add captions to an embedded video

Brand captions automatically appear for an embedded video by adding "&cc_load_policy=one" to the video's embed code.

You can likewise choose a caption language for the embedded video. To specify the caption language for the video that you'd like to embed, just add "&cc_lang_pref=fr&cc_load_policy=i" to the video'southward embed code.

  • "cc_lang_pref" sets the linguistic communication for the captions shown in the video.
  • "cc_load_policy=1" turns captions on by default.
  • "fr" represents the linguistic communication code for French. Yous tin look up two-alphabetic character language codes in the ISO 639-1 standard.

Plow off embedding for your videos

If you've uploaded a video and don't desire to allow others to embed your video on external sites, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left carte du jour, select Content.
  3. Next to the video you lot'd like to manage, select Details .
  4. From the top, select SHOW MORE.
  5. Uncheck the box next to "Let embedding" and Relieve.

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